Thursday, March 29, 2018

Council of Ministers - 2018, Nepal




Prime Minister (41st)
Name:   Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli  (K.P. Oli )
Date of Birth: 22 February, 1952
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Education: Class 9
Parents: Mohan Prasad and Madhumaya Oli.
Spouse : Radhika Shakya

He joined Communist Party of Nepal in February of 1970 in opposition to Panchayat system.  A year later he became a district committee member of the party and the chief of the Jhapa Movement Organizing Committee in 1972. Oli was imprisoned for 14 consecutive years from 1973 to 1987. After his release from prison in 1987, he became a central committee member of UML in-charge of the Lumbini Zone until 1990. He was elected as a Prime Minister for the first time in a parliamentary vote on 11 October 2015, receiving 338 votes out of 597. Oli's PM candidacy was supported by the UCPN-Maoist, Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal, and Madhesi Rights Forum-Democratic along with 13 other small parties. He was sworn in on 12 October.
K.P Oli is elected as Prime Minister of Nepal for second time on 15 February 2018.


Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration
Name: Lal Babu Pandit
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)

He is a Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) leader and the current Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration. He was elected to the House of Representatives from Morang - 6 in the 2017 election by defeating Congress candidate Shekhar Koirala. He was elected to the First and Second Constituent Assembly under Proportional Representation system

 Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens
Name: Tham Maya Thapa
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)

Tham Maya Thapa is a Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare, she has vowed to bring in new programmes to abolish child marriages and dowry system from the society.





Minister of Home Affairs
Name: Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal)
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)











Minister of Finance
Name: Yuva Raj Khatiwada
Date of Birth: 14 August, 1956
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)

Education: PhD. in Monetary Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (1991)

Yuba Raj Khatiwada is an economist and the current Minister of Finance of Nepal. He previously served two tenures as vice-chair of National Planning Commission and as Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank of Nepal.



 Minister of Defence
Name: Ishwar Pokhrel
Date of Birth: 4 February, 1954
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Education: BA in Education & Literature from TU, Kathmandu
Parents: Shiva Hari Pokhrel & Ram Kumari Pokhrel
Spouse : Mira Dhonju Pokhrel
Children: Shreejan Pokhrel, Sajeet Pokhrel
Website: www.ishwarpokhrel.com

He is the Party General Secretary of CPN-UML since 2009 . He is also the Founding member of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (ML) and the founding member of the Central Committee, CPN (UML).



Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
Name: Matrika Prasad Yadav
Date of Birth: 16 October, 1958
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)

Born in Sabaila of Dhanusha district in Nepal , Matrika Prasad Yadav was one of the 19 Central Committee member of Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist) when the party declared peoples' war against the Nepalese State . After the peace deal between the government and Maoist , he was appointed twice as the "Minister of Forest and Soil conservation" and once as the "Minister of Land Reform". His political career started at very young age and remained underground throughout most of his political life. He was also jailed several times .
 

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Name: Pradip Kumar Gyawali
Date of Birth: 13 September, 1962
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Parents: (Late ) Narayan Dutta Gyawali , (Late) Punya Kala Gyawali

Born in Baletaxar -2, Chautara, Gulmi. He is a Central Committee member of the party. In the 2008 parliamentary election he was elected from the Gulmi-2 constituency, winning 24345 votes. In the 2017 Legislative elections, Gyawali is elected from the Gulmi- 1 constituency with 37814 votes.


Minister of Education, Science and Technology
Name: Giri Rajmani Pokharel
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)






Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation
Name: Raghubir Mahaseth
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)






Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
(16 March 2018 – 27 February 2019)

Name: Late. Rabindra Prasad Adhikari
Date of Birth: 5 May, 1969
Died February 27, 2019, Taplejung
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Education: Masters in Business Administration, TU, Nepal
                                                      Parents: Indra Prasad Adhikari & Laxmi Adhikar
                                                      Spouse : Bidhya Bhattarai
                                                     Website: www.rabindraadhikari.com

Born in Kaski District, Adhikari was elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 13,386 votes and  Constituent Assembly election he was re-elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 15456 votes in 2013. He served as Central Committee member of CPN UML and was President of Development Committee of Legislative Parliament of Nepal since then. He wrote books, "Constituent Assembly, Democracy and Re-structuring" and "Samriddha Nepal".


Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Name: Sher Bahadur Tamang
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)






Minister of Water Resources Energy
Name: Barsa Man Pun
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)






Minister of Labour, Employment, and Social Security
Name: Gokarna Bista
Date of Birth: 1 July, 1965
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Education: M.Com Business Administration, TU, Nepal
Parents: Bhim Bahadur and Chinta Kala Bista
Awards:  Hydro Excellence Award 2068; Nagarik Abhinandan 2068

Born in Dohali-3, Gulmi District, he started his political career in 1978 after quitting his government job immediately as disputes erupted with Kaji Man Kandnawa, Anchaladish(zone chief), on the very first day of his job. A locally popular leader Bista became quite popular for his attempts to implement the revolutionary changes in country’s power sector including power cuts.


Minister of Forest and Environment
Name: Shakti Bahadur Basnet
Date of Birth: 14 April, 1971
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Parents: Danda Bir Basnet and mother Dharma Kumari Basnet
Spouse: Satya Pahadi

Born in Khalanga, Jajarkot District in Western Nepal, he got into politics with alias Suresh Singh.  In 1998, he was selected as Central Committee Member of UCPN Maoist and later in 2013 he was elected in the Nepalese Constituent Assembly Election from his hometown.
 

Minister of Water Supply
Name: Bina Magar
Date of Birth: 8 December
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Spouse: Late Prakash Dahal


Bina Magar, who won the Kanchanpur-1 seat in Parliament, has been named Nepal’s new Minister for Water Supply. She was the president of Independent Student Union from ANISU-R in Saraswati Campus and is the daughter-in-law of Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
 

Minister of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives
Name: Chakrapani Khanal
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)







Minister of Youth and Sports
Name: Jagat Bahadur Biswakarma
Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Lenninist)
Education: Master's Degree in Political Science, TU, Nepal












No comments:

Post a Comment

Pashupatinath Temple

These days one can pay Rs 15,000 and conduct evening  aarati  at Pashupatinath temple. I don't know who introduced this tradition in...